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== 2000s ==
== 2000s ==
* 2000: The [[Ca Favale]] ecovillage is created.
* 2001: The [[Battle of Genoa]] occurs.
* 2001: The [[Battle of Genoa]] occurs.
* 2003: The insurrectionist group '[[Revolutionary Struggle]]' is founded in Greece.
* 2003: The insurrectionist group '[[Revolutionary Struggle]]' is founded in Greece.

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Southern Europe that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

Pre-1000

  • 3000BCE: The Minoan Crete Civilization is formed and holds a large, functioning mutualist economy. It is also the first modern civilization in Europe and held the largest cities in the world.
  • 594BCE: The Athenian Polis is formed, one of the most widely known attempts at direct democracy and environmental protection.

1800s

  • 1878: Giovanni Passannante attempts to assassinate King Umberto I of Italy with a dagger.
  • 1893: Santiago Salvador throws two Orsini bombs into a Barcelona theatre, killing some twenty people and injuring scores of others.
  • 1896: Dimitris Matsalis, an anarchist shoemaker, attacks banker Dionysios Fragkopoulos and merchant Andreas Kollas with a knife. Fragkopoulos is killed on the spot; Kollas is seriously wounded.
  • 1897: Pietro Acciarito tries to stab King Umberto of Italy.
  • 1897: Michele Angiolillo shoots dead Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo at a thermal bath resort, seeking vengeance for the imprisonment and torture of alleged revolutionaries at the Montjuïc fortress.

1900s

  • 1900: Gaetano Bresci shoots dead King Umberto, in revenge for the Bava-Beccaris massacre in Milan in 1898.
  • 1906: Mateu Morral tries to kill King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg after their wedding by throwing a bomb into the wedding procession following the ceremony. The monarchs are unhurt, but some bystanders and horses are killed.
  • 1908: Manuel Buíça and Alfredo Costa shoot to death King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Crown Prince Luis Filipe, respectively, in the Lisbon Regicide.

1910s

  • 1912: Manuel Pardiñas shoots Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas dead in front of a Madrid bookstore.
  • 1913: Alexandros Schinas shoots dead King George I of Greece while the monarch is on a walk near the White Tower of Thessaloniki.
  • 1919: The Bienno Rosso begins.

1920s

  • 1921: The Arditi Del Popolo is founded to combat the growing influence of fascists across Italy.
  • 1921: Three anarchists on a motorcycle shoot dead Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier in Puerta de Alcalá, Madrid.
  • 1926: 15-year old anarchist Anteo Zamboni attempts to assassinated Mussolini and fails, being hung in public.

1930s

1970s

  • 1973: The Athens Polytechnic Uprising occurs, leading to the fall of Greece's fascist military dictatorship and the creation of a social democracy.
  • 1973: ITT's headquarters in Rome, Italy are bombed in retaliation for ITT's role in the military coup in Chile.
  • 1974: The Carnation Revolution begins in Portugal, leading to the fall of the fascist military dictatorship and creation of a progressive democracy, the end of the last European colonial empire (as the colonies of Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea are all granted independence) and the formation of hundreds of workers' councils.
  • 1975: The Second Spanish Revolution begins, as the fascist military dictatorship is destroyed, a progressive social democracy is created and hundreds of workers' councils are formed.

2000s

See Also

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